I have a memo field in a continuous form that is set to can shrink/
grow but doesn't seem to grow when the data exceeds the space on the
form. is there another setting i'm missing?

thanks

On Mar 3, 2:20*pm, Marshall Barton <marshbar...@wowway.com> wrote:
> fish...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >I have a memo field in a continuous form that is set to can shrink/
> >grow but doesn't seem to grow when the data exceeds the space on the
> >form. is there another setting i'm missing?
>
> What you're missing is that form controls only grow when you
> print the form.
>
> AFAIK, the best you can do is make the text box tall enough
> to display at least two lines of text so Access displays a
> vertical scroll bar in the text box.
>
> --
> Marsh
> MVP [MS Access]

Thanks Marsh. I wasn't sure if this was only for a report or not